Michael's Blog
ASP.NET and Embedded Development
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LINQ to JSON
James has published a first beta of LINQ to JSON support in his Json.NET library. It looks very similar to my LINQ support in an internal build of Ajax.NET Professional which never has been released. … more
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How to... use Class Libraries with ASP.NET AJAX like AjaxPro
Using Ajax.NET Professional (AjaxPro) you are able to put you AJAX methods wherever you want, if inside the Page class itself, any .NET class in the same project or as a reference class library. To … more
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How to... move from AjaxPro to ASP.NET AJAX PageMethods
In one of my last posts I blogged about the future of Ajax.NET Professional (AjaxPro) and that I'm not able to do further development on that project. A lot of my readers feeling sad about this … more
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Everywhere Microsoft Silverlight
To prepare my laptop for the next weeks I reinstalled my last image to get rid of all the beta software I tried the last months. Oh, I have to install Silverlight to be able to develop and show some … more
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Future of Ajax.NET Professional
I'm happy to see that Ajax.NET Professional is used about 13.3% when using .NET related web applications. Starting with my first post Using a HttpHandler and Attributes to call C# methods in … more
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Silverlight Rectangles, Paths and Line Comparison
More than half a year ago Dave Campbell, Luis Abreu and I had a discussion about the 1px line width problem in Silverlight and WPF. A short summary of the problem when drawing lines with 1px and … more
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Volta - Microsoft Live Labs
On December 5th last year Microsoft Live Labs announced the Volta technology preview, a developer toolset for building multi-tier web applications using existing and familiar tools, techniques and … more
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[MVP] Congratulations! You have received the Microsoft MVP Award
Wow, another gift I got from Microsoft today: Dear Michael Schwarz, Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2008 Microsoft® MVP Award! The MVP Award is our … more
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Microsoft Download Center using Silverlight 1.0
Some weeks ago Microsoft already published a preview version of the Microsoft Download Center. Now, there is a new URL for the preview version (which is now called beta): http://www.microsoft.com/ … more
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Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 Wish List (part 2)
I got a lot of feedback for my last post about Silverlight features that are currently missing. Because it is Christmas time we are allowed to wish everything we want, what we get is another thing. … more